John Fitzwater, M.D., John Griswold, M.D., Melinda Banister, M.D., Ari Halldorsson, M.D.Sharmila Dissanaike, M.D. The Use of
High Frequency Ventilation as the First Line Therapy for Severe Inhalation Injury.
North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX February, 2008.

Fitzwater, J., Kruse, I., Roumeliotis, P., Sperry, N., Griswold J., Halldorsson, A., Dissanaike, S. Rising Incidence of Fatal Motorcycle Crashes Since
Amendment of the Helmet Use Law. North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX. February, 2008.
XXXVI Biennial World Congress of the International College of Surgeons, Vienna, Austria,
December, 2008.

Santana-Aponte, D., Dhillon, G., Schutt, R., Griswold, J., Halldorsson, A. Unique Case of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Young Patient with
Turner Syndrome and Goodpasteur Disease. North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX. February, 2008.
(Poster)

Santana-Aponte, D., Dhillon, G., Schmedes, G., Griswold, J., Halldorsson, A. Preoperative Embolization in the Treatment of Carotid Body Tumors.
North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX. February, 2008.
XXXVI Biennial World Congress of the International College of Surgeons, Vienna, Austria,
December, 2008.

Lewis, R., McNabb, W., Griswold, J., Berry, M., Mowrey, B., Sasin, E., Halldorsson, A., Dissanaike, S. Evaluation of
the Utilization of Paramedics to Activate the Trauma Team from the Field: A Prospective
Study at a Level I Trauma Center. North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX. February, 2008.

I have been married now for 27 years to my wife Margaret. We have three children:
a 26 year old daughter and a 23 year old son, both attending Tech, and a 16 year old
son. I enjoy very much working here at Tech as well as being with my family. My personal
hobbies/interests include aerobic exercise and weight lifting (we have a number of
excellent gyms here in Lubbock), cooking, and fresh water pond gardening.

Clinical Interests

Educational Interests

The Department of Surgery is fortunate to have dedicated attendings representing every
surgical specialty. Yet, and most importantly, there are no other surgical residencies
and/or fellowships within the department that compete for cases. In other words, the
general surgery residents in our program do not compete with ENT residents for radical
neck cases. They do not compete with Urology residents for radical nephrectomies.
They do not have to stand in line behind Vascular fellows to participate in open vascular
surgery or endovascular procedures. We feel our program is among the few in the country
that can say when residents complete our program they have in-depth experience in
a broad breadth of surgery which truly earns them the name general surgeon. This translates
to an environment where residents completing are able to pursue whatever field of
surgery they enjoy or to undertake any procedure they wish based on their preference,
not because "I didn't do enough radical neck procedures in my residency or I didn't
have enough opportunity to scrub on nephrectomies, or my vascular surgery experience
was diluted due to the vascular fellowship at our program". Our residents are able
to choose the exact type of practice they want as their experience is broad and complete.
This means our program provides unique experiences that many programs in the country
are not able to provide. I invite you to peruse our web site and more importantly,
apply and explore opportunities of joining our residency program for what I feel is
one of the best training environments in the country!